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I am still absorbing the events since Wild Wild Country. As of today, I have had over 5,000 communications from people I did not know before the series. The vast majority of the outreach has been from people who have expressed an interest in Osho and have also expressed their being touched by what they saw as sincerity, love and vulnerability in me.

I have mostly responded about Osho. Many people are writing that they want to hear from me as well.

My experience is that when I am sharing about Osho, I am sharing from my heart, from the deepest places within me.

Osho’s blessings and guidance led me to all the understanding, acceptance, love and trust now within me. Whether I use Osho’s words or mine, it’s the same source.

Sitting this morning, I asked for the most simple, direct way to state the path, as I know it.This is what came: love and trust as much as you can.MEDITATION, LOVE and TRUST are the keys to the door to acceptance. Acceptance is the way to relaxation and the transformation of consciousness.At the highest level, total acceptance, love and trust are the same thing.

Osho said, “that which you water grows.” If you water consciousness, through meditation, consciousness grows. If you water fear and desire, their power grows.

When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself seems useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of peace, find a human sunrise. Find those people who are committed to change in our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet and they are singing, or not and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion to our infinitely frightening downhill slide of human life.

by Alice Walker

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People don’t think they are spiritually asleep, that’s why they go on sleeping. Once you understand you are spiritually asleep, then waking is a very simple matter.

The hardest thing is to accept that deep in your being there is a sleep, an unconsciousness. Whatever meditations are being done here are just to shake you, to bring you to a point where the sleeping consciousness cannot sleep anymore. It has to wake up. It is only a question of simple understanding.

Responding to a comment in favor of criticism, it isn’t that criticism can’t be useful. Mostly, however, it’s just a negative judgment reflecting a negative attitude. I’m not at all interested in much of anything negative on my page or in my stream or whatever and the fuck they call it.Osho said, that which you water grows. If we water negativity, we become more negative. If we water love, we generate more love. I have been more negative that I would like my entire life. For the time I have left, I am endeavoring to live the admonition of that great mystic Johnny Green: You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on the affirmative, don’t mess with Mr. in between. Love to all.

People often think telling the truth means telling someone every negative or judgmental thought we may have about them or whatever else. It is my sense, that almost none of us are assisted by other people’s judgments. It is also my sense that what we all need is love.

It’s not about happy or sad. Positivity is a chosen approach to experience. I remember in an old book Osho listed cheerfulness, or something like that, as an essential or at least very useful part of the path to transformation. Negativity takes us into our darkness, that we all have plenty. Positivity takes us to our light, and into that light lies the path of transformation.

As to Truth, Truth is not easy to define, and it is impossible to define ultimate truth in words, but criticism sure isn’t it. Ultimate truths are communicated and understood in silence. The most we can do in words is indicate toward where the truth may be found. That is what Osho did. And, as he said, don’t bite my finger, look where I am pointing.

Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Look inwards, as deep as possible. It is your own space. At the very end you will find the empty heart.

The empty heart is a door to eternity. It is a connection between you and existence. It is not something physical or material. It is not something mental or psychological. It is something beyond both, transcending both. It is your spirituality. Remember, the empty heart makes you a buddha.

This moment is blessed. Ten thousand hearts are feeling the silence and the merger with existence. You are the fortunate ones of the earth.

Relax… just be a watcher of mind and body both. The insistence should be on the witnessing. Witnessing is your secret love. Witnessing is Buddha, watching.

And what is MEDITATION? It does not mean meditating upon something; the English word is misleading. In English there is no word adequate enough to translate Buddha’s word samasati. It has been translated as meditation, as right mindfulness, as awareness, as consciousness, alertness, watchfulness, witnessing – but there is not really a single word which has the quality of samasati.

Samasati means: consciousness is, but without any content.

There is no thought, no desire, nothing is stirred in you. You are not contemplating about God or about great things… nature and its beauty, the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, and their immensely significant statements. You are not contemplating! You are not concentrating on any special object either. You are not chanting a mantra, because those are all things of the mind, those are all contents of the mind.

You are not doing anything! The mind is utterly empty, and you are simply there in that emptiness. A kind of presence, a pure presence, with nowhere to go – utterly relaxed into oneself, at rest, at home.

Osho

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My concern is the immediate, this moment. Beyond this moment nothing exists. The only time that is existential is now and the only space that matters is here. So I don’t care what happens in the future. Neither the past nor the future have any validity.

But that is the way of the mind. The mind can only think in terms of past and future, the mind cannot experience the present. It deviates from the present continuously. The mind is like a pendulum, it moves to the left, the far left, or to the right, the far right. Either it is leftist or rightist, and my whole approach is to be exactly in the middle.

The word for the middle which Gautam Buddha used is very beautiful. He called MAJJIM NIKAYA, ‘the way of the exact middle.’

If you can keep the pendulum in the middle, the clock stops. The clock represents the mind, and not just literally, not just as a metaphor. Mind is time. Time consists of two tenses, not three. The present is not part of time. The past is time, the future is time. The present is the penetration of the beyond into the world of time.